Beautiful Sparkling St. George Staurolite Cross

This harmonious and beautiful 2" wide Beautiful Sparkling St. George Staurolite Cross, weighing 1.27 ounces, or 36 grams, is a wonderfully balanced example of the complex Staurolite crystal formation, and comes from Keivy, a city in the Kola Peninsula of far Northern Russia. You can see additional Staurolite rods embedded in the matrix, visible on the back side of this gorgeous specimen, visible in pictures below. The name Staurolite comes from the Greek words stauros (cross) and lithos (stone) meaning stone of the cross. The name is appropriate because Staurolite crystals often appear in twin cruciform formations, in the shape of a Greek cross, also called a St. George cross, with a 90 degree angle between the arms, or in the shape of a St. Andrew's cross, with a 60 degree angle between the arms. Staurolite cruciform twins have been worn by religious devotees through the ages, and are renowned as sacred natural objects, invested with the power to heal, bring good luck and transform